Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-06
WASSHE MURDERED Z
A SENSATION CREATED IN CRAVEN
COUNTY, North CAROLINA.
The xysterious Death Of an Unioved
wifs-Revenus Raid-Hog aad
Anti-Eog Parties.
Especial telegram to tho Dispatch.

RALEIGH, N. g., May 5.--Considera-
bic sensation has been caused in Craven
county by the arrest and imprisonment
of Charles Jones, a white man, who is
charged with having choked his wife
near Dover and drowned her in Neuse
river. He is native of Jones county,
and last year married a daughter Of
Moses Westbrook. Shortly after he
deserted his wife and fell in love with
another woman, whom he wished to
marry. Saturday he went to Dover
after his wife and took her away. She
was not seen again alive. Monday
Jones reached home and said his wife
was drowned. He was suspected and
arrested. Yesterday his wife's body
was found in Neuse river. Signs OF
foul play were plain. There were
finger-marks on the throat, which
showed that she had been choked to
death. The verdict of the coroner's
jury last evening was to that effect.
The feeling against Jones was very
high.
REVENUE RAID.
News has been received of a revenue
raid in Chatham county and of the
capture of three illicit distilleries,
which were destroyed. The moon
sinners escaped.
In Craven county an incendiary fire
destroyed the stables. and contents be-
longing to A. ID. Parrott and Benjamin
Uzzell.
SCHOOL NEWS.
At the commencement of the Davis
School, at La Grange, the largest mill
tary school in Eastern North Carolina,
Ex-Governor William +. Cameron, OF
Virginia, and General f.. w. Noise, OF
South Carolina, are to deliver addresses.
The cadet battalion will be inspected by
Colonel Francis II. Cameron, inspector
general. June Sth is the day of the
commencement.
At Ashpole Institute, large school
in Robson county, Rev. DIR. Charles
f. Taylor, the presidentof Wake-Forest
College, delivers the annual address
June 10Th.
Rev. DIR. Charles 7. Bailey. editor OF
the BibLicaI RccOrdcr, did not go to the
Southern Baptist Convention at Louis
vile. but Rev. Charles S. Farris, assist
ant editor, represents that paper.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
Among the aldermen of this city
elected last Monday is f. c. Smith,
ESQ, a son of Chief-Justice w. N. II
Smith. Mr.. Smith is member of the
State Board of Internal improvements
The Republican members of the Board
of Aldermen will make an effort tC
Dust Mr.. Smitbjrom that body. They
claim that he cannot hold two offices
at the same time.
At the town of Trenton, the county
seat of Jones county, politics were no
a factor in the campaign, but there
we're hog and anti-hog parties anC
tickets-the former holding that thu
hog was not nuisance and should b,
given complete liberty of the streets o
the town; the latter declaring itsel
unalterably opposed to such privilege
for the hog. So hog and anti-hol
speeches were made, and there were
several small disputes growing out o
this interesting question. In the cleo
ton Monday the vote was tie. AM
now arises another interesting ques
tion-how will the matter be settled
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
Rev. Thomas Hume, of the Stat
| University, to-day delivered the address
at the closing exercises of the admlrl
bly, conducted graded school at Win
ston.
One of to-day's events was the excur
sion over the Cape-Fear and Yadkin
Valley railroad from Bennettsville, ;
c., TO Walnut Cove, Stokes county.
Company c, First regiment, Mort
| Carolina State Guard, yesterday pre-
sented Inspector General Cameron wit
very handsome aiguillets.